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by namero999 5y ago
Metabolizing biological life is a good place where to draw the line: we have no instance of presumed conscious behavior that is also not metabolizing. So when I say "like me", that's the dimension I'm considering, which
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I am a human being and I am conscious. You look like me and behave like me, so I have no reasons to doubt you are conscious too: it's either that or solipsism. The real question is, how can you doubt that another human being is conscio
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by namero999 5y ago
Cognition and consciousness are very different things. Do you think that a sufficiently large contraption of pipes, vales and water will become conscious?
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Not going to downvote you, but I consider that view extremely naive. Without an all encompassing worldview, you are going to need lots of luck to navigate life and the world. The word religion, once you divest it of superstitions, means re-
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by namero999 5y ago
Tagging along, as this resonated as similar to my journey. Happy to chat.
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I think he shines best either in his books (the first, "Rationalist Spirituality" is very short and gives a good intro to his thought) or in YT interviews. The one with John Vervaeke or Curt Jaimungal are good picks. The blog is i
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Mind if I'll drop an email? It resonated.
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They have been my gateway to spirituality, whatever than means. I approach them the same way a Christian would approach Easter or Christmas or any other ritual. They are indeed a ritual which "happened to happen" to me. They are s
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Nice, similar exp. Check Bernardo Kastrup. Good friend of Spira, computer scientist who worked at CERN, now pushing idealism which is essentially western Advaita Vedanta.
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by namero999 5y ago
As a teen, I taught myself Java several years ago (pre 1.2) on BlueJ, and I'm so happy to see that it is still a thing! https://www.bluej.org It really helped a lot back then!
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To remove this task, open Task Scheduler, you will find a new Mozilla folder under "Task scheduled library" where you can disable or delete it. Will probably come back next update.
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Yes, it's fuzzy just because there doesn't seem to be a general widespread agreement on terminology, even among "experts", so that someone uses the word consciousness meaning something completely different than someone e
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It strikes me as inconsequential since it presupposes that which is trying to characterize: feeling.
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Joining the bandwagon of happy remarkable users. It's the only device I own that respect my attention and focus. I use it mainly to take notes of (paper) books I read and to send web articles to it via its awesome browser extension.
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by namero999 5y ago
Alternatively, since the hardware is excellent, burn LineageOS on them (most of them are supported and stable). To unlock the bootloader you still need a xiaomi account and to wait a week. Otherwise you can contact someone on reddit or tele
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So far my experience with Banana Pi products has been of great hardware, at great price point, but miserable software to the point of frustration. The best help always comes from good samaritans on GH releasing experimental builds that some
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Money laundering
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And to me, it reminds of the Codex Seraphinianus
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Yes. I think the categorical quantities->qualities jump is still there, or at least unexplained.
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Although emergentism doesn't solve the hard problem.
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What is that knows that which is material?
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> It's strange to me that materialism is still such a popular belief amongst people who consider themselves rational, because even the origin point of that belief (the atomistic view of physics) fell apart at the hands of quantum me
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I don't think that's the point parent was making. Of course in a processor there are only particles, and we can easily detect computation by analyzing how registers and in turn potentials change. The point being made is that this
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Opera solved this problem egregiously with workspaces. No need for extensions or other tricks. This feature alone is worth a try of what is regardless the most ergonomic browser I've ever used.
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by namero999 6y ago
I never claimed you will never understand. I said the exact opposite (read again), and again you are twisting my words to play a pointless game that you so much want to win, it seems so important to you because you keep on using these child
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by namero999 6y ago
I think there is a difference between a proof and the refutation of an argument. I expect proofs from scientific theories, and if a theory of consciousness would posit itself as scientific, I would be in perfect agreement with you that proo
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Short answer: no other creature has developed complex languages, written books or made art. Long answer: there is a plausible argument that consciousness might be a gradient. Certain creatures might express some level of meta consciousness,
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But then the onus is on those who sense it to point out said bullshit.
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An easy resolution of this doubt lays in definition. Do not mix up phenomenal consciousness with meta-consciousness or self-referential consciousness. Clearly, only humans are meta-conscious. Homo sapiens-sapiens, the man who knows that kno
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by namero999 6y ago
For a superb and rigorous account of the ontological basis of consciousness, and why it might be superior to panpsychism while being more in line with scientific evidence, check "The idea of the world" by Bernardo Kastrup (or any

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